Books Quote by G.K. Chesterton

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The reading quieted his brain a little. Without Katherine and without the Theorem and without his hopes of mattering, he had very little. But…

— John Green

“I always had to buy a book, even if I wasn't done with the one I was currently reading. I loved to read. I…

— Aaron Patterson

“Thomas Aquinas was asked, “What must I do to be a saint?” and he said, “Will it.” Be a saint, and you’ll unleash the…

— Robert E. Barron

“Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book…

— J.E.B. Spredemann

“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one nature wrote…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Books are the most precious things we have in this world. Anything you might want to know, you can find in a book.”

— D.M. Pulley

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

— Jeremy Taylor

“I believe that books, like people, come to us at the perfect time, with a purpose to either bring awareness to something we need…

— Lindsay Carricarte-Jones

“I read and re-read the books I had brought. The quality of the book didn’t matter. What was important was that there was reading…

— Sooyong Park

“There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw…

— Charles Kingsley

O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint Thomas of…

— Peter Julian Eymard